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Tall Ships Tacoma is bringing dozens of vintage sailing ships and other vessels back to town July 3 through 7. Here's your definitive guide to the ships and the festival. 
Published September 24th, 2008 - 12:30AM
A board member of the Tacoma Tall Ships Organization will head a resource action committee that will raise funds to pay down the deficit from July’s festival and collect donations toward the 2011 event.
Published August 24th, 2008 - 1:00AM
The Tacoma Tall Ships Organization is considering several ways to pay off its $500,000 deficit from last month’s festival and is also looking for ideas, festival co-chairwoman Clare Petrich said Saturday.
Published August 15th, 2008 - 1:00AM
Almost six weeks after Tall Ships Tacoma 2008 ended, organizers say they don’t have firm attendance or financial figures from this year’s event.
Published July 8th, 2008 - 1:00AM
The weather could have been better. The crowds could have been bigger. But, on its final day Monday, organizers called the Tacoma Tall Ships 2008 a success, and vowed to begin work on bringing the ships back in three years – just as soon as they finish crunching the numbers from this year’s event.
ON THE BAY, CRIES OF ‘LIVE FREE OR DIE!’
Published July 7th, 2008 - 1:00AM
Welcome aboard Washington state’s unladylike Lady. Every day in port during Tall Ships Tacoma 2008, two of the Lady Washington’s doughty crew spend an hour below decks, packing black powder and tinfoil into tubes.
Published July 7th, 2008 - 1:00AM
Black Widow, first mate of the fearsome Black Diamond Pirates, finally met a worthy adversary Sunday.
Published July 6th, 2008 - 1:00AM
Lt. Cmdr. Erik James stood on the deck of the HCMS Oriole on Saturday morning and talked about his latest port of call during Tall Ships Tacoma 2008.
Published July 6th, 2008 - 1:00AM
As a ship liaison, Mickie Hucke has one job title but many responsibilities.
Published July 5th, 2008 - 1:00AM
Pirates roamed Dock Street. Performers belted sea chanteys for anyone who would listen. Hungry attendees munched on elephant ears. F-16s from the Freedom Fair’s Fourth of July air show screamed overhead. And the demand to tour tall ships from around the hemisphere was constant.
Published July 4th, 2008 - 1:00AM
Tacoma welcomed the return of more than two dozen tall ships to its waterfront for the first time in three years Thursday with cheers, whoops and waves.
Published July 3rd, 2008 - 1:00AM
Bryan Cargill had spent only three nights aboard a tall ship, but the 16-year-old from University Place was already talking like a seasoned sea veteran.
Published July 2nd, 2008 - 2:45AM
ABOARD THE EAGLE, PUGET SOUND - I slept right through reveille. My roommate Food Service Chief Leta Gibbons had to remind me that if I wanted breakfast, it would not come to me, and it would be gone by 7:30 a.m.
Published July 2nd, 2008 - 1:00AM
ABOARD AMERICA – This tugboat’s crew is hungry and lonely. Four men work and live aboard Foss Maritime’s Tacoma-based tanker escort 24 hours a day.
Published July 1st, 2008 - 1:00AM
For some, it’s the clothes: billowing shirts and brocaded britches for the men; bustiers and corsets, along with flowing silky skirts, for women. And plenty of leather vests, belts, jackets, hats and boots for both genders.
Published June 30th, 2008 - 1:00AM
THE BIG BANG STRATEGY
Published June 29th, 2008 - 1:00AM
Tall Ships Tacoma promises to draw 31 ships, 2,000 volunteers and hundreds of thousands of visitors during the four-day festival this week. Such numbers could mean a logistical nightmare for the city government and the small nonprofit running the event. Instead, with lessons learned from the 2005 festival, city leaders and Tall Ships organizers are certain they’re prepared to handle the influx of people and activity when the festival begins Thursday.
Published June 29th, 2008 - 1:00AM
Sure, they’re tall, and worth seeing as they sail in. But tall ships both past and present have also inspired some pretty cool art, song, drama, literature and science – and a lot of it is coming to the South Sound this week.
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